Thinkpad T460s M.2 42MM for SSD, is this possible?

I do noticed that the T460s still have another M.2 42MM slot which can be used for 4G WWAN card, will this slot be used for another SSD drive? Such as MyDigitalSSD Super Boot Drive 256GB M.2 SATA 42mm SSD? Or it can only take M.2 PCIE 42mm SSD which isn't availabe on the market at moment.

Re: Thinkpad T460s M.2 42MM for SSD, is this possible?

‎04-07-201601:23 PM

Transcend 2242 MTS400 Sata III M.2 SSD 256Gb is not recognised by Windows 10 or the bios in the M.2 WWAN socket on my T460s. The drive is not faulty - it's now functioning in a USB enclosure. Lenovo support suggested on phone that the WWAN socket supports SSD but I have not seen this confirmed. Experience of others would be interesting.

Re: Thinkpad T460s M.2 42MM for SSD, is this possible?

I just received my t460s and attempted to install the samsung 950 pro. I used acronis to backup the default 128GB SSD to an external.

Then, I installed the 950 pro and I used diskpart (WinPE w/ acronis media) to setup the partitions similar to the the 128 GB SSD

System Drive - 100 MB

Recovery - 128 MB

Windows7_OS (C - 460 GB

Lenovo_Recovery (Q - 13.5 GB

Afterwards, I used acronis to recover the backup to the the 950 pro.

This all succeeds, but when the machine reboots, "Starting Windows" shows for a few seconds and the machine blue screens. Also, I gave the Windows Startup Repair a try and tried to recover via the Lenovo Recovery. When attempting Lenovo Recovery, I immediately receive "Recovery Failed".

I retried this again and to now avail.

Any tips/suggestions? If there's a how-to or recommended procedure, that would be awesome!